[U-Boot-Users] [RFC] Splash image
Rodolfo Giometti
giometti at enneenne.com
Wed Jul 18 17:32:55 CEST 2007
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:31:25AM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>
> FWIIW, I took a screenshot, saved it as a 16 bit BMP, then converted the
> BMP as a GIF, JPEG, and a PNG. While very unscientific, this says BMP with
> gzip is a winner for two reasons:
> 1) It is similar in compression ratios to PNG and GIF
> 2) We already know how to gunzip and BMP.
>
> Benchmark:
> 495410 screenshot-16.bmp
>
> 25411 screenshot-16.bmp.gz
> 25875 screenshot-16.PNG
> 37727 screenshot-16.GIF
> 148854 screenshot-16.JPG
>
> (Trivia: I did JPEG because it was there. It is generally a poor choice
> for splash screens because it has artifacts on sharp transitions, which
> splash screens tend to have.)
This seems good! :)
Rodolfo
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